Raila

Raila is a 51-year-old woman, who has been engaged in milk sales for the last four years. Rakhila is married and has five children. She has two milking cows and sells milk and homemade yoghurt to the local people. Raila's profit in this business is 150 AZN per month. This is the only financial income in her family and Raila is aiming to expand it. To do that she has applied for a 1000 AZN loan to purchase one milking cow and fodder.

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About Aqroinvest:

Aqroinvest Credit Union was founded in 2001 by a group of 32 farmers from Imishli. It has since grown to become the largest credit union in Azerbaijan, owned by its more than 5,400 borrowers and boasting a portfolio of nearly US$12 million.
AqroInvest is focused on providing loans to the following groups of people: rural farmers, people living in distant southern villages with little or no access to finance and internally displaced people and refugees, many of whom lost their homes and livelihoods during the violent conflicts in the 1990s.

In May 2011, Aqroinvest started a new project with Kiva proving higher education loans to students. The project gives students the support and financing they need to continue their education and helps pay for tuition fees at various universities in Azerbaijan. Aqroinvest is the first credit union in the country to offer students loans.